As to who did it, Xiao Mu couldn't guess.

But whoever was able to kill a Land God and place its severed head in a vessel resembling a fish tank to display power, must possess terrifying strength.

"This… is too terrifying. Who would be bold enough to kill a Land God?"

Unable to comprehend, Du Wenzhen's voice trembled slightly.

The scene before him sent shivers down his spine.

Xiao Mu noticed that one of the plumage was missing from the official cap of the Land God within the fish tank-like vessel and couldn't help but turn to Du Wenzhen, "Where's that plumage?"

"It's here."

As he spoke, Du Wenzhen took the broken feather out of his Storage Box, which indeed matched the one on the Land God's official cap inside the vessel.

"Hand it over!"

Xiao Mu reached out his hand towards Du Wenzhen.

Understanding, Du Wenzhen passed the feather to Xiao Mu.

"My apologies!"

Xiao Mu bowed deeply to the Land God's head in the vessel and placed the plumage beneath the fish tank.

This was a Divine Spirit of the human world, who had guarded humanity since ancient times and deserved respect.

Xiao Mu intended to take the Land God's severed head from the vessel and find the corpse to bury them together, but the killer's tremendous strength, combined with the vessel's unimaginably strange curse power, prevented him from daring to touch the vessel rashly.

"Honored God, my respects to you!"

Normally carefree, Du Wenzhen too, bowed to the Land God to express his reverence.

"Old Xiao, this place is too sinister, hiding immense dangers," Du Wenzhen said worriedly, looking towards Xiao Mu.

"Danger?" Xiao Mu's expression turned solemn as he looked ahead at the ground and gestured to Du Wenzhen, "Look there."

On the ground, Xiao Mu, who practiced the cultivation of Xuanmen Zhenggang, clearly sensed the presence of Curse Power, left by someone who had used it.

"What?" Du Wenzhen failed to notice it himself.

"Alright!" Xiao Mu then realized that Du Wenzhen practiced different cultivation methods and might not be able to notice the details he could.

Xiao Mu switched to transmission by voice, explaining, "There's residual Curse Power on the ground, people from Curse Gate must have been here."

"What?" Du Wenzhen was startled but swiftly switched to voice transmission out of caution, jealously saying, "Old Xiao, you're so powerful that you can even see the Curse Power on the ground, do you know how many people there are?"

Xiao Mu shook his head, "I can't tell."

Relieved, Du Wenzhen chuckled through voice transmission, "Haha! So there are things you can't see as well."

"Less nonsense, let's move on," Xiao Mu said sternly, urging Du Wenzhen forward.

The two moved stealthily, one in front of the other, trying to avoid making any noise, cautiously advancing deeper into the pit.

Just a few steps in, they saw a group of Yin God corpses, including Black Impermanence, White Impermanence, Ox-Head, and Horse-Face, among other underworld messengers.

These bodies were strewn in disarray, numbering at least twenty to thirty.

Each one had died a horrible death, their bodies completely unmarked as if killed by a single blow.

As the scout, Du Wenzhen's expression grew grave as he communicated to Xiao Mu, "Old Xiao, how many underworld messengers are there in a Land God Mansion besides the Land God himself?"

"I don't know," Xiao Mu transmitted back, as his knowledge was insufficient to understand these ancient matters.

"Haha! There's something you don't know as well," Du Wenzhen laughed triumphantly but quickly added through transmission, wary of angering Xiao Mu, "As far as I know, in a normal Land God Mansion, apart from the Land God, the rest of the underworld messengers total about thirty or so."

"I've just counted these underworld messengers' corpses. Together, Ox-Head, Horse-Face, Black Impermanence, and White Impermanence amount to twenty-eight in total."

"Is that so?" Xiao Mu's expression immediately became grave.

Twenty-eight underworld messenger corpses, along with the severed head of the Land God, meant that the entire Land God Mansion had been slaughtered.

"The killer is not ordinarily strong. If done by a single individual, this person is extraordinarily terrifying, at least at the Divine Spirit Level. Old Xiao, who do you think did this?" Du Wenzhen took in a deep breath and asked Xiao Mu through voice transmission.

"Not enough clues, I can't guess," Xiao Mu replied via transmission.

"Cough, cough! I thought you knew everything, Old Xiao. It seems you are not omnipotent after all," Du Wenzhen chuckled secretly, ribbing Xiao Mu through transmission.

Xiao Mu gave Du Wenzhen a sidelong glance and said flatly, "Do you think if I were to use the Five Elements Lamp and solely utilize the pure gold divine light within it, I could not cleave a person to death with a single sword strike?"

Sensing the murderous intent emanating from Xiao Mu, Du Wenzhen instantly chickened out, forcing an awkward laugh, "It was just a joke, why take it seriously, Old Xiao."

This underground Land God Mansion was extensive, and although it couldn't be compared to the vastness of the underground Land God Mansion in the Cuiyun Mountain Region, it was far larger than the size of an average small county town, estimated to be around a thousand miles in circumference.

Xiao Mu and Du Wenzhen moved tentatively forward, cautiously groping their way ahead.

The Land God Mansion was located in the Netherworld, and the path was shrouded in the haze of the spirit world, clouding their vision so that both could hardly see far ahead.

Relying on their experience and Xiao Mu occasionally using Spirit Eye Observing the Terrain to follow the traces of Mutated Beings from the Curse Gate, they could follow the path without fear of going astray.

However, in this unique terrain, neither dared to use their Escape Art carelessly, worried that their Escape Light might be too conspicuous and alert the Curse Gate's people to their presence.

After travelling roughly a thousand miles, they finally came upon a Grand Hall.

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